{"id":5139,"date":"2014-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2014\/02\/05\/bt-launches-buy-to-keep-movie-service\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"bt-launches-buy-to-keep-movie-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2014\/02\/05\/bt-launches-buy-to-keep-movie-service\/","title":{"rendered":"BT Launches Buy-to-Keep Movie Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tLONDON: BT has become the first U.K. pay-TV provider to offer movies on a buy-to-keep basis as well as to rent.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThrough BT&#039;s YouView box, customers are able to buy many of the latest movies from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, along with a selection of classics and modern hits. This includes <em>The Wolverine<\/em>, DreamWorks Animation&#039;s <em>Turbo <\/em>and <em>The Croods <\/em>from Fox; <em>Elysium<\/em>, <em>Captain Phillips <\/em>and <em>The Smurfs 2 <\/em>from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; and other films such as <em>The Social Network<\/em>, the <em>Alien <\/em>franchise, <em>Black Swan <\/em>and <em>Jerry Maguire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe films purchased from BT are streamed instantly to the customer&#039;s YouView set-top box. BT is planning to expand this service to include TV box sets over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlex Green, the director of BT TV, said: &ldquo;We are delighted to have reached this agreement with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The new service gives you even more choice. You can buy the latest blockbusters and they&rsquo;re yours to keep forever. And you can watch them as many times as you like.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\tRobert Price, the U.K. managing director for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, said: &ldquo;BT TV&rsquo;s new service complements Fox&rsquo;s strategy of fostering easy, affordable and accessible ways for film fans to enjoy their favorite movies in digital HD.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\tPete Wood, the senior VP of international digital distribution of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, said: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re excited to partner with BT TV. It&rsquo;s great to be able to offer customers the newest Sony Pictures Home Entertainment films, and we look forward to growing our relationship with BT TV.&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: BT has become the first U.K. pay-TV provider to offer movies on a buy-to-keep basis as well as to rent. 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